Meet Our Team
Dr. Aparna Kamulkar, PT, DPT, PCES Founder & Clinical Director
Prana is a safe, trauma-sensitive, and inclusive Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy (PFPT) practice that is designed with one intent - to help you take steps towards a healthier YOU. Aparna Kamulkar, the founder and clinical director, is a licensed physical therapist with over 17 years of multi-setting experience. Her mission is to optimize exercise, movement, lifestyle modifications and evidence based PFPT to resolve your issues instead of with pills and surgery. She empowers her clients with knowledge and information. She has gained multiple trainings in Pelvic health from Herman and Wallace Institute and is a Pregnancy and Postpartum Corrective Exercise Specialist. In addition to being a PT, she is a certified yoga instructor from a Yoga Alliance endorsed institute. She has a strong personal practice in mindfulness which she applies to her treatment sessions. She serves as an Ambassador for the Bhatt Foundation (philanthropic non-profit organization, www.bhattfoundation.org ), and collaboratively spreads awareness about Women's Health and PFPT globally. She is a mom to 2 accomplished boys and a wife to a caring husband. Outside of her PT career, she is a professional vocalist, passionate cook, and enjoys traveling.
Dr. Ashwini Kale, MSPT, Ph.D - Clinical Consultant
Dr. Ashwini Kale is a Professor in MGM’s Institute of Physiotherapy, Aurangabad. She has completed her Ph.D. in Women’s Health Physiotherapy. She is the Head of the Department of Neuro Physiotherapy. She is the editorial board member of many prestigious journals and a reviewer of PubMed indexed journals. She has recently received international scholarship for pursuing the prestigious Advanced Certification in Pelvic Rehabilitation by American Physical Therapy Association (APTA), USA.
Dr. Bharati Bellare - Clinical Consultant & Mentor
Dr. Bharati Bellare MPT, PhD Dr. Bharati Bellare is a retired Professor & HOD Physiotherapy from LTM Medical College, Sion. She has actively participated in establishing identity of Physiotherapy as an independent health profession. She held various port folios in the Central Executive Council of the Indian association of Physiotherapy [IAP] , affiliated to the World Confederation for Physiotherapists [WCPT] from 1992 -2002. This ten years tenure also includes her tenure as the President, during which she represented India at the international conference of WCPT held at Yokohama, Japan in the year 1999. Prof Bellare is the Fellow of IAP [1994] & was awarded National Hitra Oration in the same year. Prof Bellare has to her credit more than 40 publications in the National/International journals. In the clinical domain Prof. Bellare has pioneered establishment of various clinical specialties in Physiotherapy such as Clinical exercise Sciences, with special focus on Cardiopulmonary Physiotherapy, Rehabilitation of Hand & Women`s health to name few.
Vinay Kamulkar - Chief Operating Officer
Vinay has over 20 years of industry experience working with Fortune 100 companies and providing consulting services as part of Big 5 Management Consulting Firms. He has been instrumental in setting up multiple greenfield ventures and turning them into multi-million dollar businesses.
At Prana, he is in charge of marketing, sales and operations. Vinay simultaneously runs a management consulting company. Apart from his day job, he is a professional entertainer, and enjoys traveling and photography.